On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:11:32 +0200 "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-restore.c b/tracecmd/trace-restore.c > index 8d2fcae8..a903c21a 100644 > --- a/tracecmd/trace-restore.c > +++ b/tracecmd/trace-restore.c > @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ void trace_restore (int argc, char **argv) > > if (tracecmd_append_cpu_data(handle, args, &argv[first_arg]) < 0) > die("failed to append data"); > - > + if (tracecmd_get_out_file_version(handle) >= FILE_VERSION_SECTIONS) > + tracecmd_write_options(handle); I wonder if we are just missing a tracecmd_output_close() here? And that will write the options as I mentioned before. > return; > } > diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-split.c b/tracecmd/trace-split.c > index e4a0c3b3..671d6e9f 100644 > --- a/tracecmd/trace-split.c > +++ b/tracecmd/trace-split.c > @@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ static double parse_file(struct tracecmd_input *handle, > if (tracecmd_append_cpu_data(ohandle, cpus, cpu_list) < 0) > die("Failed to append tracing data\n"); > > + if (tracecmd_get_out_file_version(ohandle) >= FILE_VERSION_SECTIONS) > + tracecmd_write_options(ohandle); > + And no more is written here to ohandle, and the close should fix it as well. -- Steve > current = end; > for (cpu = 0; cpu < cpus; cpu++) { > /* Set the tracecmd cursor to the next set of records */